Immanuel Quickley didn’t just torch the Warriors on Tuesday night. He did it with a kind of cleanliness that almost doesn’t compute in NBA terms: 40 points and 10 assists in a 145–127 Raptors win at Chase Center, with a shooting line that reads like a typo: 11-for-13 from the field, 7-for-8 from three, 11-for-11 at the line.
By the numbers, the performance lands in a rare air pocket. Quickley had a 112.1% true shooting for the game, an absurd figure that happens when a player produces massive points on almost no wasted possessions, while TS% accounts for the scoring efficiency of both field goals and free throws. It’s why a stat can exceed 100%: true shooting isn’t “shooting percentage” in the literal sense, but an efficiency rate built from points versus shooting possessions.
That’s the math behind the shock. The human part was simpler: Quickley got wherever he wanted, and when Golden State finally tried to overcorrect, he made the right read and turned the game into a passing clinic too. His 10 assists mattered here, not as a box-score flex, but as proof the night wasn’t just a heater, it was control.
It also came in a game that had context dripping off it. This was Golden State’s first game since losing Jimmy Butler to a season-ending knee injury. Toronto played like the opposite of mourning: fast, loose, and relentlessly connected. The Raptors buried 21 threes, 61.8% from deep, and piled up 42 assists, numbers that turned a road game into something closer to a scrimmage where only one team knew the rules.
Quickley was the lead engine in all of it. Every possession seemed to end in a clean look: a pull-up three in rhythm, a drive that forced help, a kick-out that became a swing-swing corner shot. The remarkable part wasn’t that he scored 40, NBA players score 40 all the time now. The remarkable part was how few possessions he needed to do it, and how little oxygen he used up in the process.
That’s why the “first player ever with 40 points, 10 assists, and 100% true shooting” framing started bouncing around immediately after the final buzzer. The box score supports the core idea, 40 and 10 on a flawless free-throw night and near-perfect shooting, though “first ever” claims can depend on how the database defines filters (minutes, attempts, era tracking, and the TS threshold used). What’s indisputable is that this was a statistically extreme blend of volume and precision, and TS% of 112.1 captures that extremity cleanly.
It’s also a reminder of what Quickley has become in Toronto: not simply a scorer, not simply a guard who can run offense, but a player capable of hijacking a game without dominating the ball in the old-fashioned way. On a night when the Raptors’ spacing was perfect and their tempo never dipped, Quickley didn’t force anything, he simply took what the geometry gave him, again and again, until the Warriors were out of answers.
